Click on names that are underlined below to see personal bio
Nancy
Abrams and Joel
Primack - University
of California, Santa Cruz
Co -Authors of "The View from the Center of the Universe"
"Our Cosmically Pivotal
Moment"Thursday
Evening Presenters
Connie
Barlow -
Evolutionary Evangelist with Michael Dowd
& author of several
science & children's books on evolution
In a special
presentation Connie will share her "River of Life"
Thursday Special Presentation
(based on the
book "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins)
Bob Banner -
Editor of HopeDance Magazine and Edible San Luis Obispo
"Transition, Opportunity, Resilience and Celebrating: How can we see and
act our way through these
most interesting times?"
Saturday
Josefina Burgos
- California Institute
for Integral Studies
"The Necessary Flow of Wisdom"
Thursday
Dwight
Collins -
Pres., Collins Family Foundation;
Prof. Sustainable Ops Management and Founding Faculty, Presidio School of Management.
"Looking for Leverage
Points for Change Towards Sustainability" Saturday
Michael
Dowd - Evolutionary Evangelist with Connie Barlow
and author of Thank God For Evolution
“The Gospel According to Science:
Evolutionary Good News” Friday and
“Evolution and the Global
Integrity Crisis” Closing Presentation Sunday Evening
Rianne Eisler -Social Scientist, Attorney, and Social Activist -
author of the international bestseller
The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future
"The Real Wealth of Nations"
Sunday - Late Afternoon (Part of the Evening Speakers Series)
Duane Elgin -
Author of Awakening
Earth: Exploring The Evolution Of Human Culture & Consciousness
"Voluntary Simplicity: Cool
Lifestyle for a Hot Planet." Saturday and
"The Living Universe: Where
are we? Who are we? Where are we going?
Conference Keynote Wednesday
Evening
Hunter Francis
- Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
"The Renewal of Spirit in Agriculture:
Implications in the Sustainability Movement" Saturday
Gil Friend
- Founder,
president & CEO of Natural Logic Inc.
"Profit on Purpose: Risk, Fiduciary Duty
and the Laws of Nature" Sunday
Gary Gardner - Senior Researcher at
Worldwatch Institute
"Climate Change: A Worsening
Predicament and an Urgent Need for Wisdom" Saturday
Cheryl
Genet -
Professor of Philosophy, Cuesta College; Director, Orion Institute
"Adventures in Synergy"
Sunday Evening (Farewells and Thank-yous)
Russell
Genet - Professor of Astronomy Cuesta College; Director, Orion Observatory
“The Cosmic Context for Science,
Wisdom, and the Future”
Conference Contextual Address
Wednesday Evening
Linda Gibler -
Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program & Associate Academic Dean at
Oblate School of Theology
“The
Irony and Necessity of Non-Violent Ideals in a Violent Cosmos”
Friday
John Gowan
-
Retired research
technician-Entomology; Ecology and Systematics, and Floriculture, at
Cornell University
"A
Spacetime Map of the Universe"
Friday
Louis Herman - Professor of Politics, University of Hawaii
"Future
Primal: A Politics for Evolving Humanity" (Video
available in the Synergy Room)
Peter Hess - Director Faith Project National Center for
Science Education
"Negotiating a human Future:
evolution, population and ethics at the end of affordable oil"
(With Dick McDonald)
Sunday
Barbara Marx Hubbard - Founder of the Foundation
for Conscious Evolution
"A Vision of the Future Equal to our
Spiritual, Social and Scientific Potential: Key Steps Toward It Now"
Thursday Evening
Presenter
Les Ihara
-
Hawaii State Senator
“The Intentional Evolution of a Politician:
In Pursuit of Personal, Public, and Institutional Integrity”
Sunday
Arthur
Jackson - Author of The Humanist Chapter of the Future and
the Future of Humanism
"How
Humanity’s Future Lies Buried in Our Past" Thursday
Bob Johansen - Distinguished Fellow
at the Institute for the Future
"Faith in the Future"
Friday Evening
Presenter
Pauline Le Bel -
Screenwriter, novelist, songwriter, and playwright
"From the Big Bang to the Big
Band: How Sound and Song Shape the Cosmos and Human Society”
Friday
Jeanne Lombardo -
Educator,
poet, writer & editor; Master’s candidate in Interdisciplinary
Humanities
"Wisdom, Science, and
Future Consciousness through the Lens of Utopia" Thursday
Thomas Lombardo
- Resident Futurist Faculty, & Chair of Psychology & Philosophy at
Rio Salado College
"Wisdom, Enlightenment and the Future"
Thursday and
"The Future Evolution of the Human Mind"
Friday Evening Presenter
David Loye - Social
Psychologist, Systems-theorist, and Futurist - Founder of the Darwin
Project
"Darwin and the Battle for 21st Century
Mind" Sunday
Heather Mendel - Mystic, artist,
writer, and teacher of kabbala
"Eve, God, and the Quantum Age"
Friday
Keith Mesecher
- Singer/Song Writer and Director of The Cosmic All Stars
band
"The Ecstasy of Awakening to Our
Place In a Living Universe" Friday
Alice
MacDonald -
Adult Catholic Educator and Retired Coordinator of Word and Life Faith
Community
"Evolving catholics
Evolving the World: Love’s Unfolding Mystery" Friday
Richard "Dick" McDonald
- Retired research physicist from Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
"Negotiating
a human Future: evolution, population and ethics at the end of
affordable oil"
(With Peter
Hess) Sunday
George Mobus
- Assoc.
Prof. Computing & Software Systems, Institute of Technology, U of
Washington
"The Past and Future Evolution of Sapience"
Thursday
Eve Neuhaus -
Educator, Mythological Studies, Author of "Journey to Mythaca"
“Ganeshian Synthesis: A Blend of
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science" Friday
Tom Neuhaus - Assoc.
Prof. in Food Science & Technology, Cal Poly, & Co-founder & president
of Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, Inc
"Making Third World Farming Sustainable:
the Fair Trade Solution"
William O'Toole - Founder and President of EcoNomics, Inc.
"Guerrillas, Gorillas, and Missionaries:
How Rwandan sustainability binds together bullets and Bibles"
Saturday
Jack Palmer -
Jack
- Professor of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Monroe;
"Power and Restraint: The Question of Human Genetic Engineering"
Thursday
Linda
Palmer
–
Health and
psychology researcher/writer/editor, Jiva Institute
"The Science of Mystical Wisdom: Ancient Virtues
for Current Times" (Not able to come)
Sheri Ritchlin -
California
Institute for Integral Studies
"The Way of Wisdom" Thursday
Shani Robins
-
Instructor
at Stanford & UC Berkeley, Clinical Psychologist, and founder & director
of the Wisdom Therapy Institute
"Wisdom Therapy:Integrating Western Psychological
Science with Eastern Philosophy in Organizations"
Thursday
Rob Rutherford - Professor of
Animal Science, California State Polytechnic University
"Holistic Management: Decision Making
for a Sustainable Future" Saturday
Robert Sachs
- Teacher and author of
The Buddha at War: Peaceful Heart,
Courageous Action in Troubled Times
"Enlightened Glimpses into
The Future" Friday
Richard
Trowbridge - Professor of Wisdom Studies;
Founder; Transletix, The Flourishing
Earth, The Wisdom-Centered Life
"Wisdom: Theory and Practice"
Thursday
Kathi
Vian - Director, Ten Year Forecast Program, the Institute for
the Future.
"Superstructuring our Institutions: How
We'll Evolve to Support 9 Billion People on the Planet"
Saturday
Warren Wolf -
Pres. of The Humanist Institute; Retired, VP & Chief Scientist, Science
& Technology, Owens Corning
"Philosophical and
Ethical Approaches to Business and Sustainability: A Humanist
Perspective."
Saturday
Paul Wolff - Professor Emeritus of Architecture, California
State Polytechnic University
"The Interface between Human Behavior and
the Physical Environment -
Creating the first LEED Certified
Synagogue" Saturday
Victoria Zelin
-
Senior Vice President and Sustainability Practice Leader at Hudson Gain
Corporation
"Attributes that Can
Make or Break a Chief Sustainability Officer"
Saturday
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Participant's Bios are presented here in
alphabetical order.
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Nancy Ellen
Abrams is a lawyer, writer, and former Fulbright scholar, with a
long-term interest in the history, philosophy, and politics of
science. While working on the staff of the U.S. Congress, she
co-created a novel method by which government agencies can make
wise policy decisions in cases involving scientific uncertainty,
and she has consulted on this for the Swedish government,
several state governments, and various corporations. Her
articles have appeared in journals, magazines, and books. She
has also released three albums of her songs and performed in
eighteen countries.
Primack and Abrams are co-authors of The View from the Center of
the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
(Penguin/Riverhead 2006). See viewfromthecenter.com For a
decade, Primack and Abrams have been co-teaching a course at the
University of California Santa Cruz called "Cosmology and
Culture" from which their book developed. They are married and
have a daughter, Samara Bay (samarasworld.com). |
http://viewfromthecenter.com/
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Connie Barlow is an acclaimed author of popular science books and
articles, and developer of THE GREAT STORY website. Connie's
most recent book, The Ghosts of Evolution (Basic Books), was Amazon.com's top-recommended science book for several months in
2001. Her previous books, Green Space, Green Time: The Way of
Science (Copernicus Books), Evolution Extended: Biological
Debates on the Meaning of Life (MIT Press), and From Gaia to
Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences, all
explore the nexus of science, spirit, and meaning. She is
founding member and webmaster of Torreya Guardians, an internet
community of botanists, naturalists, and others dedicated to
ensuring the continuing persistence in the wild of America's
most endangered conifer tree: Torreya taxifolia. A Unitarian
Universalist, she is a well-known developer of curricula for
children's religious education programs. Since 2002, she and her
husband (Rev. Michael Dowd) have lived entirely on the road, as
"America's evolutionary evangelists."
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www.TheGreatStory.org |
Bob Banner
has sat near the feet of numerous teachers (either from far
away or up close and personal). His mission is to
communicate stories and information (by print, web and by
screening films) that may be disturbing but at the same time
to light a fire under our butts to move us into more deeper
Beingness and deeper and more profound life altering Action.
He sees the necessary bridge between Spirit and Action. He
publishes HopeDance on the Central Coast (as well as
globally online). He recently began the publication of
Edible San Luis Obispo which is part of a nationwide
community of edible publishers which strengthens the local
food movement in each area. He plays ping pong for his
immediate access to Joy.
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HopeDance:
www.hopedance.org).
Edible San
Luis Obispo (www.ediblesanluisobispo.com) |
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Josephina Burgos - Born in
Santiago, Chile, Josefina Burgos came to reside in the U.S.A. in
1976 with her son and husband. She lived in Washington, D.C.,
where she passed the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE),
became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)
and practiced architecture for sixteen years. She became an
American citizen in 1986. She then moved to San Francisco,
California, where she joined the California Institute of
Integral Studies. There she obtained a master of arts degree in
philosophy and religion. Burgos is currently completing the
dissertation phase of her doctoral studies. In 2003 she
published a short story, Thoughts on a Theme by a Seagull,
in the Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies (CPS) in
Claremont, CA, Process Perspectives, Vol. 26, Number 1, Winter
2002-2003. That same year another of her stories, Adelaide,
was accepted by Process Perspectives and made available as a
paper to the membership of the CPS. In 2006 she was
selected to give a presentation – Meaning in a Post-Modern
Universe -- at the 10th Annual Conference, Exploring the
Boundaries of Experience and Self, organized by the
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology (CEP) Section of the
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Dwight
Collins
directs
the Collins Family Foundation (CFF), which has provided the
primary seed funding for this Science, Wisdom, and the
Future conference. He also is CEO of the Collins
Foundation Press, which will publish the proceedings of the
conference. Besides co-sponsoring this and the other Humanity
Series conferences with Cheryl and Russ Genet, CFF supports
nonprofits focused on sustainability and has organized retreats
and conferences in sustainable business. Examples are “Profitable
Sustainability” and “Profitable
Sustainability: The Future of Business”. Dwight is a member
of the founding faculty of the Presidio School of Management in
San Francisco, which offers an MBA integrating sustainability
principles throughout its curriculum. There he teaches
Sustainable Operations and Implementation of Sustainable
Business Practices. In 2006, he initiated a highly popular
project learning initiative at the school in which students do
projects in companies and nonprofits as part of their course
work. This program has become an important component of the
school’s pedagogy. Prior to joining the Presidio faculty,
Dwight spent over 20 years in industry. He was a member of the
founding management team of Chesapeake Decision Sciences (later
purchased by Aspen Technology), a software and consulting
company in NJ. Chesapeake pioneered the development of software
for corporate supply chain optimization in the 1985 – 2000
timeframe. Dwight earned a BS degree in Engineering Physics,
and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research, all from
Cornell University.
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Collins Family Foundation
www.collinsff.org
Collins Foundation Press
www.CollinsFoundationPress.org
Presidio
School of Management
www.presidiomba.org
Colbridge and Company
www.colbridgeandco.com
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Robert S. Corrington
is Professor of Philosophical Theology in the Graduate Division
of Religion of Drew University, Madison, NJ. He is the author
of nine books and around eighty articles devoted to unfolding
his own philosophy of ecstatic naturalism, which emerged
out of dialogue with Euro-American pragmatism (Peirce, James,
Dewey, Santayana), with its intense focus on the metaphysical
implications of Darwin, and Continental Phenomenology (Husserl,
Heidegger, Sartre), which bypasses epistemology (theory of
knowledge) to gain a more primal and grounded account of human
consciousness and its intentional objects. His metaphysics of
ecstatic naturalism is concerned with exhibiting the utter
vastness of nature as that nature manifests its own unconscious
potencies and the religious orders of meaning that intersect
with the human unconscious. His seventh book, A Semiotic
Theory of Theology and Philosophy, (Cambridge University
Press, 2000) extends his categorial scheme into the foundational
structures of the world and presents a semiotic cosmology.
Currently he is working on a larger project for Cambridge
University Press as well as other book projects that will
further ramify and extend ecstatic naturalism. This involves a
continuing exploration of Hinduism, Buddhism, and theosophy as
they all intersect with the liberal strains in Western
metaphysics and theology.
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Click here to read Corrington's nine specific assertions
about naturalism Website:
http://users.drew.edu/~rcorring/ |
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Michael Dowd
is the author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of
Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our
World (Viking/Plume), which has been endorsed by 5 Nobel
Prize-winning scientists and religious leaders across the
spectrum. He and his wife, Connie Barlow, an acclaimed science
writer, have spoken to more than a thousand groups over the past
7 years, as America's evolutionary evangelists. At home in both
liberal and conservative settings, and uniquely gifted at
building bridges between religious and nonreligious people,
Michael shares the 14-billion-year epic of evolution in ways
that uplift and expand heart, mind, and soul. His passion is
showing how an understanding of 'our brain's creation story' as
given by evolutionary psychology and neuroscience can inspire
each of us to live with greater integrity, and can inspire all
of us to work together toward a thriving future for planet Earth
and the body of life of which we are part.
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www.TheGreatStory.org
www.ThankGodforEvolution.com |
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Riane Eisler was born in Vienna, fled
from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba, and later emigrated to
the United States. She obtained degrees in sociology and law
from the University of California, taught pioneering classes on
women and the law at UCLA, and now teaches in the Transformative
Leadership Program at the California Institute of Integral
Studies. She is a founding member of the General Evolution
Research Group (GERG), a fellow of the World Academy of Art and
Science and World Business Academy, and a commissioner of the
World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, along
with the Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders. She is
co-founder with Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams of the
Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate. Her ideas have inspired
thousands of scholars and social activists. Her pioneering work
in human rights expanded the focus of international
organizations to include the rights of women and children. Her
research on cultural transformation has impacted many fields,
including history, economics, psychology, and education. Dr.
Eisler is the only woman among 20 great thinkers including
Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee selected for inclusion in
Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting
importance of her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary
theorist. She has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D.
degrees, and is included in the award-winning book Great
Peacemakers, as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along
with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.
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Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV),
www.saiv.net
President of the Center for Partnership Studies,
www.partnershipway.org,
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Duane Elgin is an internationally
recognized author and speaker who, for more than thirty years,
been speaking and writing in four major areas: 1) the big
picture of humanity’s evolutionary journey at this pivotal time
in history, 2) more sustainable and satisfying ways of living,
3) media accountability for an empowered citizenry and society,
and 4) the convergence of science with the world’s wisdom
traditions and their shared views of a living universe. Duane is
the author of three major books: Promise Ahead:
A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (2000), Voluntary
Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly
Simple, Inwardly Rich (1993 and 1981), and Awakening
Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and
Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and others he
co-authored the book Changing Images of Man
(1982). He has worked as a senior social scientist with the
think-tank, SRI International where he coauthored numerous
studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as
the National Science Foundation and the President's Science
Advisor. He has also worked as a senior staff member of a joint
Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future. He
has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in economic history
from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of
Philosophy for work in "ecological and spiritual transformation"
from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San
Francisco, CA. Duane was honored in 2006 with the International
“Goi Peace Award” in recognition of his contribution to a
global “vision, consciousness, a lifestyle that fosters a “more
sustainable and spiritual culture.”
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www.AwakeningEarth.org |
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Gil Friend
is founder,
president & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, providing advisory
services in strategy, design, operations and information systems
that help clients build economic advantage through exceptional
environmental performance.
He is a founding board member
of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and
the California Sustainable Business Council and serves on the
executive board of OpenEco.org and the advisory boards of
CleanFish, WattBot, Green World Campaign, and (past) San
Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council.
Friend served in the California Governor’s Office, developing
early sustainability policies and programs. He was a founding
board member of Internet pioneer Institute for Global
Communications, founder and Executive Director of Foundation for
the Arts of Peace, and cofounder and co-director of the Institute
for Local Self-Reliance, a leading urban ecology and economic
development “think-and-do tank,” where he pioneered the current
“green roof” trend more than 35 years ago. Friend lectures
widely on business strategy and sustainability issues and writes
The New Bottom Line, offering strategic perspectives on business
and environment. He was coauthor of Biofuels Development and
Soil Productivity (1982), the author of The Truth About
Green Business and the forthcoming book Profit on Purpose:
Risk, Fiduciary Duty and the Laws of Nature. He holds an
M.S. degree in systems ecology from Antioch University, has a
black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of “The
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Hunter Francis
is
co-founder and
coordinator of the Sustainable Agriculture Resource
Consortium (SARC) at Cal Poly State University in San Luis
Obispo. The SARC provides education, demonstrations and
resources on sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Hunter received his MS in Agriculture (Soil Science
specialization) from Cal Poly. Currently, Hunter is a
part-time lecturer in the College of Agriculture at Cal Poly
where he co-teaches the Cal Poly Land class. He also serves
as co-editor of the 'Applied Biodynamics' newsletter for the
Josephine Porter Institute.
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www.sarc.calpoly.edu
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Gary Gardner is a Senior Researcher at
the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization
based in Washington, D.C. He has written on a broad range of
sustainability issues, from cropland loss and water scarcity to
malnutrition and bicycle use. Gary contributes regularly to
Institute publications, including State of the World, Vital
Signs, and World Watch magazine. He is the author of
the 2006 book Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to
Sustainable Development. In addition to his research and
writing, Gary has done interviews in both English and Spanish
with international media outlets including the BBC, Voice of
America, National Public Radio, and the Los Angeles Times.
Before joining Worldwatch in 1994, Gary was project manager of
the Soviet Nonproliferation Project, a research and training
program run by the Monterey Institute of International Studies
in California. There, he authored Nuclear Nonproliferation: A
Primer, which is also published in Spanish and Russian. He
has developed training materials for the World Bank and for the
Millennium Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Gary holds Master's
degrees in Politics from Brandeis University and in Public
Administration from the Monterey Institute of International
Studies. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Santa Clara
University in California.
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Cheryl
L.
Genet, Ph. D. earned her doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Science
and Theology. As director of the Orion Institute’s Science and
Human Meaning program, she focuses her research on scientific
paradigms, cosmological stories, interfaith relations, and
understanding our emerging global community. She taught at
Central Arizona College and more recently at California
Polytechnic State University Osher Institute for Life-Long
Learning. Currently she teaches philosophy at Cuesta
College, and is the Managing Editor of the Collins Foundation
Press.
She co-chaired and co-edited two conferences and resulting books
in the Humanity Conference and Book Series: Evolution of
Religion: Studies Theories, and Critiques and The
Evolutionary Epic: Science's Story and Humanity's Response.
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www.OrionInstitute.org |
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Russell
M.
Genet, PhD, is a
Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State
University, Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College, and
Director of the Orion Observatory.
He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred
scientific papers. He observes eclipsing binary stars and
studies cosmic evolution. Russ, who pioneered the world’s first
fully robotic observatory (featured in the PBS special The
Perfect Stargazer), was the 51st President of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific.
His latest
book, Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, tells
the evolutionary story of how we came to be, drawn from the best
science of our time, and suggests possible future scenarios.
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www.OrionObservatory.org |
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Linda
Gibler is a Dominican Sister of
Houston. She is the
Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and the Associate
Academic Dean at Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX.
Linda is also Adjunct Faculty at Loyola Institute for Ministry,
New Orleans, LA.
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Overwhelmed by the first Hubble Deep Field picture, Linda became
enchanted with the magnificence of the Universe and intrigued by
the image’s significance for a Catholic understanding of God.
In 1999, she began formal study of cosmology with Brain Swimme
at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Since her
cosmic epiphany, she has earned and MA and a PhD in Philosophy
and Religion with an emphasis in Philosophy, Cosmology, and
Consciousness.
She also holds
a
Masters of Arts in Pastoral Studies at Aquinas Institute of
Theology in St. Louis, MO.
She enjoys crafting lectures and workshops on cosmology and
ecology.
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Peter M.
J. Hess - His position as Faith Project Director
for the
National Center for
Science Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California
involves
outreach to churches and other faith communities to promote the
compatibility of evolutionary biology and religious belief.
Peter earned his M.A. in philosophy and theology from Oxford
University, and his Ph.D. in ecclesiastical history from the
Graduate Theological Union. His scholarly work focuses on the
interactions between science and religion in the modern world,
particularly the impact of theology on the Scientific Revolution
(1600-1900) and the response by theologians to discoveries and
new paradigms in the developing sciences. His book on
Catholicism and Science, co-authored with Paul Allen of
Concordia University, will appear in April, 2008 (Greenwood
Press); he is also writing on the religious and ethical
implications of the rapidly approaching end of affordable oil.
Peter has taught theology, philosophy and history since 1980,
and currently teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at
Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. A fellow of the
International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), he is
also an active member of the European Society for the Study of
Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the Center for Theology and the
Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Metanexus Institute of
Philadelphia. An avid rock climber and volcano mountaineer,
Peter and his wife Viviane have two sons, Michael and Robert.
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John A. Gowan
is retired
from Cornell University after 25 years working in the biological
sciences. He has three grown sons (and 4 grandchildren), and
live with my wife Esther in San Luis Obispo and spends his time
reading and writing for his website "General Systems, Gravity,
Unified Field Theory" on topics ranging from Cosmology and
particle physics to Teilhard de Chardin and the Fractal
Organization of Nature. He has recently finished an on-line
"e-book" with longtime CPSI colleague August "Gus" Jaccaci.
Gowan was educated at Culver Military Academy (Culver, Indiana,
4 yr. military high school), where he did well in English and
physics and enjoyed wrestling, football, and crew. He
spent 2 years at U.C. Santa Barbara, majoring in English and 4
years in the U.S. Army, learning Korean at the Army Language
School (Monterey, California), and serving as a Korean
interpreter in Seoul. Gowan operated a dairy farm (with draft
horses) in upstate New York, then finished his education at
Cornell, majoring in General Agriculture. Subsequently he worked
for the departments of Entomology; Ecology and Systematics; and
finally Floriculture, all at Cornell, as a research technician
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General Systems
website (homepage)http://www.webcitation.org/5gdx3DDhN
E-book:
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Louis
Herman.
Professor
Herman is a political philosopher and head of the political
science program at the University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu Campus. He was
born and raised in South Africa, educated at Cambridge, England
(medicine and the history and philosophy of science), and was
initiated into utopian politics through involvement with the
Israeli Kibbutz movement. He came to Hawaii to get some
philosophical distance from his origins and complete a PhD in
politics. He now returns regularly to his birthplace in South
Africa for his work as executive producer with an international
team on a feature length documentary film Primal Quest, dealing
with the convergence between the ancient shamanic wisdom of the
San Bushman, the hunter gatherers of the Kalahari, and the
latest scientific insights from evolutionary cosmology. His book
manuscript, Future Primal: A Politics Beyond Modernity
provides the background research and vision for the film. He has
also authored articles and papers on related themes.
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Primal Quest
website
http://socrates.uhwo.hawaii.edu/
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Barbara
Marx
Hubbard
is President of the Foundation for Conscious
Evolution, received her Bachelor Degree from Bryn Mawr College
cum laude in Political Science. She took her junior year abroad
at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris.
She was given a first ever Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by
Emerson Theological Institute. Barbara has helped create the
field of conscious evolution. She wrote a first evolutionary
networking “Center Letter” in 1967-69 to over 1000 people,
working with Dr. Jonas Salk, Abraham Maslow, Lancelot Law Whyte
and others to ask the question: “What is the next step for the
future good?” She founded The Committee for the Future in 1970
in Washington DC., where she co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences
for SYNergistic CONvergence. These advanced, multi media,
multi-disciplinary events brought diverse people from every
field and function together in a wheel shaped environment to
seek common goals and match needs with resources in the light of
the growing potential of the whole system. She wrote and
narrated the Theater for the Future; a multi-media story of
creation that places humanity in the story and visualizes what
it might be like when everything we know we can do works.
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Les Ihara, Jr. is a state senator, who
has served 23 years in Hawaii State Legislature. Prior to his 15
years in the senate, Les served 8 years in the house of
representatives. He has held senate leadership positions of
majority leader, floor leader and policy leader. A delegate to
Hawaii's last constitutional convention in 1978, Les was also
elected to 3 terms as chair of the Oahu County Democratic Party.
Senator Ihara is recognized as a state leader in the areas of
collaborative governance, open government, ethics, campaign
finance and lobbyist reform, public access, environmental
protection, and aging in place. Les has worked diligently over
the past 30 years to develop an alternative model of a
politician that includes personal, public and institutional
integrity, truth-telling, and inter-cultural communications. On
the national level, Les has been an author and associate of The
Kettering Foundation, board member of the National Issues Forum
Institute, and is currently a vice chair of the National
Conference of State Legislatures’ Legislative Effectiveness
Committee.
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Arthur Jackson has been active in the
American Humanist Association (AHA) since 1962. Hew was
the first Humanist officiate certified as an alternative to
Ministers, Priests and Rabbis and served as Assistant Director
of the American Humanist Association (1965-69). Jackson
authored the Humanist Orientation Manual (1966) and
served as Editorial Associate on The Humanist Magazine
(1965-69). He chaired the International Humanist & Ethical
Union's Working Party on Humanist Counseling (1968-78) and
served as Executive Director of the Humanist Community of San
Jose (HCSJ) (1969-76). Jackson sponsored a humanist group
at Soledad State Prison (1970-73) and served on the AHA Board of
Directors. He was the President of the HCSJ (1979-82),
Executive Director of the Division of Humanist Certification
(1982-89), President of the Humanist Community (2005-09), and a
member of the Executive Council, Division of Humanist
Certification (1972-82). In addition, he served as editor of
Humaist Community News (1979-97) and Editor of The
Humanist Dialogue (1989-94) Jackson was appointed a member
of the Humanist Society Board in 2008 and assists in certifying
Humanist Celebrants, Ministers, and Chaplains. He is the
author of The Humanist Charter of the Future and the Future
of Humanism (1982, 1993), and A User's Guide for Modern
Humans: How to Live the Good Life, available in an earlier
form "Science of Ethics" on line at
www.arthurmjackson.com/wpre.html
He holds that
there is only one magisteria and that the methods of science
apply to every dimension of reality.
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Bob Johansen is a Distinguished
Fellow at the Institute for the Future who has worked for more
than 30 years as a forecaster, exploring the human side of new
technologies. He has a deep interest in the future of religion
and its impact on business, society, and individuals. Bob works
mainly with senior corporate executives across a wide range of
industries. He has rich experience in presenting IFTF's
foresight and then drawing out insights-inputs to
strategy-and-action steps. Bob served as IFTF's president and
CEO from 1996 to 2004. Still on IFTF's Board and the IFTF
Leadership Team, Bob now spends most of his time with IFTF
sponsors, writing, public speaking, and facilitating content.
Before his role as president, Bob created and led IFTF's program
on emerging information technologies-now called the Technology
Horizons Program. Since joining the IFTF staff in 1973, he has
explored the social and organizational impact of new
technologies. One of the first social scientists to study the
human and organizational impacts of communications and computing
technologies, his focus is primarily three to five years out,
going as far as ten years when possible, and occasionally as far
as 20 years. A social scientist with an interdisciplinary
background, Bob holds a BS degree from the University of
Illinois, where he also played varsity basketball, and a Ph.D.
from Northwestern University. Bob also has a divinity school
degree from what is now called Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity
School, where he studied comparative religions.
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Bob's Latest book,
Leaders Make the Future, is
now available at a 40% discount through 800ceoread
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Pauline Le Bel
has been a fulltime artist for over 30 years – an Emmy-nominated
screenwriter, award-winning novelist, songwriter, playwright,
voice teacher, festival organizer and “evolutionary troubadour”.
She is an experienced actor/singer who has worked professionally
in theatre, film and radio. She was called "a musical instrument
linked to a soul" for her dramatic portrayal of chanteuse, Edith
Piaf, in a play she co-wrote. Her published/produced writing
credits include: a novel, two screenplays (The Song Spinner, a
family movie for Showtime), 4 musicals, a radio drama, songs for
films, 3 CDs of her own songs, and articles for various
publications. Her powerful, earthy voice has been heard in
theatres and concert halls across Canada, in the U.S. and the
U.K. and her poetic, musical interpretation of the universe
story has delighted international audiences. For three years,
she was Artistic Director of Voices in the Sound, an arts and
nature festival she created and organized, and is the author of
a cosmological musical about her home, Bowen Island, Canada. She
is part of a growing community working to integrate art, nature,
science and spirit to support a radical transformation in human
consciousness.
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Jeanne
Belisle
Lombardo
is
co-founder of the Center For Future Consciousness in
Scottsdale Arizona, an educational institute
designed to
help individuals and organizations increase their understanding
of the future and constructively approach its challenges and
possibilities.
Jeanne is interested in the intersection between the humanities
and the sciences, and the role that intellect and emotion plays
in shaping our world. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish
and Latin American Studies, and is currently writing her
Master’s thesis in Interdisciplinary Humanities on stasis and
dynamism in the
evolution of
utopian thought. Conversant in several languages, having lived
and traveled in numerous countries around the world, she has
been a teacher, educational administrator, editor, writer,
inter-cultural advisor, and educational consultant.
Passionate about language,
culture, history and ideas, informed about current events and
global issues, and committed to excellence and learning,
Jeanne’s present interests include the future of marriage and
gender relations, utopian models of ideal future societies,
ethics and ethical evolution, biotechnology and human
enhancement, the future of education, and humanities and the
future.
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Jeanne
firmly believes that
"The
quality of the future will reflect the future quality of human
beings." Explore future consciousness and read Jeanne’s essays
in the humanities at
www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com
gknee@cox.net
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Tom Lombardo, Ph.D. is the
founder and Executive Director of the Center for Future
Consciousness in Scottsdale, Arizona and a leading researcher,
writer, and speaker on the topic of the future. The author of
The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist
Thought, Dr. Lombardo brings a unique and powerful synthesis of
contemporary science, psychology and philosophy to the field of
future studies. He is also the Resident Futurist Faculty, as
well as the Faculty Chair of Psychology and Philosophy at Rio
Salado College in Tempe, Arizona. He is a graduate of the
University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota and a
graduate fellow of Cornell University. He has served as the
Chief Psychologist and Educational Director at John Madden
Mental Health Center, the Dean of Forest Institute of
Professional Psychology, and the Chair of the Psychology
Instructional Council at Maricopa Community Colleges. His first
book, The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment, is the best
selling volume in Lawrence Erlbaum’s Resources in Ecological
Psychology and has been translated into Japanese. Dr. Lombardo
is an award-winning educator with over thirty years professional
experience.
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David Loye is a former Princeton and UCLA
School of Medicine faculty
member, internationally known evolutionary systems scientist,
and
award-winning author. His presentation "Darwin and the Battle
for 21st
Century Mind," will focus on his new trilogy covering the
development of
evolution theory and evolutionary activism throughout the entire
20th
century. Revolution and Counter-Revolution, The Battle of the
Books, and
Up Against the Paradigm bring to life the 20th century battle
between
progressive science and progressive religion against regressive
science
and regressive religion for control now of the 21st century
mind. Among his
scientific activities, he is a co-founder of the multinational
General
Evolution Research Group; a co-founder of The Society for Chaos
Theory
in Psychology and the Life Sciences; co-founder with cultural
evolution
theorist Riane Eisler, of the Center for Partnership Studies ;
and
founder of The Darwin Project, with a Council of more than 50
leading
American, European, and Asian scientists and educators. His
study of
moral evolution began in 1971 with the national award-winning
book The
Healing of a Nation, in which he first made the case for a
new moral
oriented field of science and global action oriented healing
therapy.
Scheduled for publication in 2010 is his sixth book Moral
Transformation
Cycle.
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The Darwin Project
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Alice MacDonald
has served the
Catholic Community of Santa Barbara, CA in adult education for
the past 28 years. She has participated in various leadership
roles in the Word and Life Faith Community, most of those years
serving as Co-ordinator and retiring in March of 2008. In 1998
she received her Masters Degree in Theology from Loyola
Marymount University in Los Angeles. She was also a founding
member of the Institute for Adult Spirituality which held two
series a year at the Franciscan Renewal Center at Mission Santa
Barbara until 2006. Her interest lies in the area of science and
spirituality with an emphasis on the evolving Catholic
consciousness as expressed primarily through the writings of
Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She and her husband
Bill have been married for 43 years and have three adult
children.
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Richard J. McDonald,
Ph.D. is a retired
research physicist from the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley CA. USA. His scientific work included
various aspects of experimental atomic and nuclear physics, both
basic and applied, along with a stint in neutrino physics. His
physics career brought him into contact with people from many
cultures, and he speaks some German and Italian. His
involvement with resource issues started with investments in
metals and energy and go back two decades. He currently earns
his living from participations in oil and gas wells and the
occasional profit in the stock market. His B.S. from the
University of San Francisco included, besides physics, extensive
studies of philosophy and theology, which he applies to his
resource interests in both writing and speaking at conferences
such as this. He is currently seeking answers to the
“greenness” of various technologies and the accuracy of oil
reserves. Dr. McDonald is married with two grown sons.
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Dick McDonald
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Heather Mendel -
Mystic,
artist, writer, and teacher of kabbala, South African born
Heather Mendel was trained as a speech and hearing therapist.
Fascinated with the relationship of thought to language, her
professional life for the past 20 years has focused on words,
written and spoken. A calligraphic designer of word-paintings of
spiritual wisdom, she also writes a regular column,
Spirituality Matters
for The Womens' Press. Deeply rooted in the universality of
Judaism, she believes a contemporary understanding of ancient
Jewish teachings will significantly contribute to the new world
paradigm. She is a regular guest speaker at local churches and
university campuses. She delivered the keynote address at the
first Annual SLO Women's Press Retreat in 2006. Her book,
Dancing
In The Footsteps of Eve: retrieving the healing gift of the
Sacred Feminine for the human family through myth and mysticism
is available for pre-order at amazon.com to be released in
November. Her previous publication
Towards
Freedom: a feminist haggada for men and women in the new
millennium
is also available.
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Keith
Mesecher was
inspired more than 3 years ago by Michael Dowd's telling
of the sacred story of our evolving universe and since
then has been studying, teaching, and preaching the story of the
universe, as we know it from science, and reflecting on our role
in its majestic and magnificent unfolding ever since. Keith
formed an organization, Cosmos, at his Unitarian Universalist
Church in San Diego and offered church services based on the
Great Story. He combines visuals from the Hubbell Space
Telescope with guided meditations, participatory, joyous
singing, and story telling, based on Brian Swimme’s Powers of
the Universe. As a singer/songwriter Keith began to
write high-energy songs celebrating the universe and our role in
it, getting the congregation on their feet and dancing during
Cosmos worship services. Cosmos invited Michael Dowd and Connie
Barlow to San Diego and together they staged North America's
first Evolutionary Revival. Michael preached and led a guided
meditation, and Connie involved attendees in an enacted parable
as she taught the Story of the Universe. Keith and his band, The
Cosmic All Stars, led the audience in rousing singing to his
songs projected on a screen with magnificent photographs by
Connie and the Hubbell Space Telescope. The Cosmic All
Stars has released a CD of the songs written for Cosmos
and The Evolutionary Revival, and it includes versions with just
the band that can be used for live celebrations when the band
isn’t present.
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George Mobus is an associate professor
of Computing and Software Systems at the Institute of Technology
at UWT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994 from
the University of North Texas after years working in industry as
a software engineer, engineering and operations manager, and CEO
of an embedded systems company in Southern California. Prior to
joining the Institute he taught computer science at Western
Washington University where he did research on autonomous
robotics. He currently teaches systems software, robotics,
embedded systems programming, and the Global Challenges course
in the UWT Global Honors Program. For the last six years Dr.
Mobus has been turning his attention to global issues, such as
global warming and peak oil, where computational problem solving
might be applied. Currently, his work in global issues
problem solving and energy systems is combining in the
development of biophysical economics models of energy systems
sustainability. He will be taking his sabbatical in the fall,
visiting SUNY-ESF to work with Professor Charles Hall and his
students modeling the sustain-ability criteria for alternative
energy production systems. As something of a nearly full-time
avocation, Dr. Mobus is also conducting broad research in the
area of the brain and psychological basis of wisdom in a
facility he calls ‘sapience’. He is currently working on
assembling a body of evidence that suggests sapience is a unique
faculty of the human brain and has evolved along with
consciousness to produce the human mind.
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On the systems engineering side, I
am engaged in two curriculum efforts
and one research effort. The curriculum efforts are for a BA/BS
in Systems
Science
(http://faculty.washington.edu/gmobus/
Admin/SystemsScience/
explainingSystemsScience.html)
and an MS in Energy Systems Engineering
(http://faculty.washington.edu/gmobus/
Admin/EnergySystemsEngineering/
MSEnergyEng.html).
Both are meant to provide students with
up-to-date knowledge and skills
needed to meet the social, political,
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Eve Baumohl Neuhaus
has been interested in
cosmology for as long as she can remember. Born in Philadelphia
in 1950, she was fortunate to meet Swami Ganeshananda, a Bengali
yogi whose life work was synthesizing ancient and modern
science, in the 1970’s. Swami Ganeshananda left Eve with the
assignment of combining, updating, and publishing his three
manuscripts, a treatise on yoga, an extended essay on science
and religion, and an unfinished autobiography. The work has
taken 30 years: Crea Sadhana: Once and Always will be
published by Inner Traditions International later this year. In
the interim, Eve worked with gifted children in elementary and
middle schools in Ithaca, New York, and San Luis Obispo CA,
completed an M.S. in Education with an emphasis in creativity at
Elmira College, and an M.A. in Mythological Studies at Pacifica
Graduate Institute. In 2004, she published a novel,
Journey to Mythaca.
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Tom Neuhaus
is Co-founder
and president of Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, Inc. An
Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and
Technology at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he developed the
department’s Culinary Science and Management Concentration, the
country’s only chocolate-production course in a university,
Cal Poly Chocolates, and he co-taught Cuisine Française
en Français, to Modern Languages students with Dr. John
Thompson of Modern Languages for six years. Since the course’s
founding in 2000, Tom has taught hundreds of language majors how
to cook while speaking only French in lecture and in lab.Tom’s
current passion is the international politics of commodity
pricing and the evolution of Fair Trade business practices, with
the specific goal of using small and medium-size business
practices to allocate more of the cocoa value chain to the cocoa
farmer. Tom’s interests have taken him to South America and to
West Africa, where he leads trips to cocoa farms, and
facilitates donations of tools and other in-kind gifts that will
make the West African cocoa farmer more sustainable. In 2006,
Tom established Project Hope and Fairness, a non-profit NGO
dedicated to helping West African cocoa farmers.
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www.projecthopeandfairness.org
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William O’Toole
founded EcoNomics, Inc. in 1977. Mr.
O’Toole holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology, specializing
in Systems Ecology, from the University of California at San
Diego. Mr. O’Toole has been a member of, and has provided
advisory services to, numerous local, state and national solid
waste and recycling organizations including the California
Resource Recovery Association, the National Recycling Coalition,
Northern California Resource Recovery Association and
Californians Against Waste. As a board member of Californians
Against Waste (CAW), Mr. O’Toole was a major architect of the
state’s deposit legislation and was instrumental in obtaining
passage of California’s precedent setting recycling law Assembly
Bill 939 (50% recycling mandate). His firm has provided
strategic advice and developed original and groundbreaking
recycling and diversion programs to over 100 jurisdictions and
many corporations. Mr. O’Toole believes that ecological
principals can be applied to human economics systems. The
application and further development of applied ecology to
government and business is necessary for sustainable global
prosperity. He has produced several informational videos on
recycling and industrial ecology. His current film project is in
production in Rwanda and deals with sustainability, conflict
zones, and human resilience. He believes that the only
impediment to a sustainable future is a lack of understanding
and that education of key decision makers is critical to our
world’s future.
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Jack
A.
Palmer is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he has taught since
1989. Jack and his wife Linda coauthored a text human evolution,
Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior,
published by Allyn & Bacon in 2002. Jack primarily teaches
Neuropsychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Positive
Psychology. His evolution courses and textbook take the larger
“Evolutionary Epic” perspective, which is somewhat rare in
psychological science. Jack’s current research focuses on
investigations of the effect of rearing experiences (ontogeny)
on adult psychological traits; and the neurological substrates
of moral reasoning. He has been named “Researcher of the Year”
and “Professor of the Year” by his dept. The Palmers are
long-time practitioners of the meditative discipline Sant Mat.
Their daughter works in television and film production on the
West Coast, and their son (now deceased) was a computer
programmer and graphic designer.
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About our book, Evolutionary Psychology:
Jiva Institute:
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Linda
K. Palmer, is co-author (with Dr. Jack A. Palmer)
of Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human
Behavior. Early in life, Linda made her living as an artist.
Later she worked as manager of the Survey Research Institute,
University of Georgia, and editor-in-chief of Edition Naam
publishing. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, taught
psychology at Louisiana universities, and was a therapist in
private practice. In 1998, Linda left academia and spent seven
years in spiritual centers, studying full-time with renowned
mystic, Thakar Singh. She produced over a dozen books from his
discourses, including his last work, Live the Life of Soul.
Linda currently conducts psychological research with Jack,
serves as editor for Jiva Institute, and does freelance editing
and writing. Linda and Jack have a daughter who works in
television and film production; their son (now deceased) was a
computer programmer/graphic designer.
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Joel R. Primack, a professor of
physics at the University of California Santa Cruz, has done
foundational research in cosmology. He and his team use some of
the world's biggest supercomputers to simulate the evolution of
the universe, and they compare the results with observational
data. He has recently chaired the Forum on Physics and Society
of the American Physical Society, as well as the Committee on
Science, Ethics, and Religion of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is a coauthor of Advice and
Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena.
Primack and Abrams are co-authors of The View from the Center of
the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
(Penguin/Riverhead 2006). See viewfromthecenter.com. For a
decade, Primack and Abrams have been co-teaching a course at the
University of California Santa Cruz called "Cosmology and
Culture" from which their book developed. They are married and
have a daughter, Samara Bay (samarasworld.com).
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Sheri
Ritchlin
recieved her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral
Studies for her dissertation on "The Return of the Sage: A New
Cosmology Meets the Way of Heaven and Earth in the I Ching"
under the guidance of Professors Yi Wu, Brian Swimme and Richard
Tarnas and further inspired by the work of Thomas Berry. She is
the author of One-ing, Dream to Waken and articles
published in Parabola Magazine and the Institute of
Noetic Sciences Review (Shift). Her current work,
Fields of Light: 2012 and the Venus Transit of the Sun
focuses on the worldview of Mesoamerican sages and its extension
into our own time.
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Shani Robins,
Ph.D. pioneered the field of Wisdom TherapyTM in 1998
which integrates western psychological science with eastern
philosophy. He is an instructor at Stanford University and U.C.
Berkeley, a licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY18795), and the
founder and director of the Wisdom Therapy Institute since 2000.
Dr. Robins completed his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy with
honors from UCLA in 1989, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive
Experimental Psychology from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1996, a
2-year National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral
Fellowship at U.C. Irvine in 1999, and a second Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology in 2002. He received his license in Clinical
Psychology in 2002. For the last 15 years, Dr. Robins has been
teaching both clinical and research Ph.D. courses in Positive
Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, Lifespan Development,
Mindfulness
Meditation,
Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Evolutionary
Psychology, Research and Statistics, and the organizational
applications of those topics. Dr. Robins has published
and given numerous clinical workshops, invited talks,
scientific conference presentations, and corporate consultations
nationally and internationally on Wisdom Therapy, how wisdom can
be actively cultivated sooner rather than later, and wisdom’s
relationships to emotions, stress reduction, anger management,
emotional intelligence, relationships, work place effectiveness,
coping, performance, and organizational consulting.
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Rob
Rutherford -
graduated with
a B.S. in Agricultural Education and then completed a M.S. in
General Agriculture after being hired into the Animal Science
Department at Cal Poly in 1974. He currently serves a professor
in that department, teaching classes in sheep management, issues
in animal agriculture, and holistic management. Additional roles
have included managing the sheep operations and serving as the
president of both the California Wool Growers Association and
the California Sheep Commission. He is a Certified Educator of
Holistic Management.
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Robert Sachs
is a local
author and teacher. His books include
The Buddha at War: Peaceful
Heart, Courageous Action in Troubled Times,
The Passionate Buddha: Wisdom
on Intimacy and Enduring Love, and
The Wisdom of The Buddhist
Masters: Common and Uncommon Sense. He and his wife,
Melanie, run Diamond Way Ayurveda, offering treatments and
providing trainings in the body-mind techniques of Indian and
Tibetan Ayurveda."
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Richard Trowbridge: Richard Hawley Trowbridge, adjunct
at 3 colleges. RHT has recently finished the first English
translation of Charles de Bovelles’ Liber de Sapiente,
(Book of the Sage). He is also concluding “Wisdom: A Guide to
the Research”, the most complete review ever undertaken of the
empirical research on wisdom, with Shani Robins and Drew Krafcik.
For the past five years he has facilitated classes on developing
wisdom at learning-in-retirement centers in Rochester, NY. This
program, “The Wisdom-Centered Life”, consists of four parts:
Learning about wisdom, Exercises for keeping the mind focused on
ultimate priorities, developing a wisdom Perspective, and Using
situations in our own lives for developing wisdom. This last can
be called “The royal road to wisdom.” Wisdom is defined as
“Maximal understanding and optimal choices.” Information on this
program is available in The Wisdom Companion, an annual
training guide and resource on the psychological, philosophical,
spiritual writings on wisdom and on its past and present
manifestations.
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Bob Willard is a leading expert on the
business value of corporate sustainability strategies. He has
given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporate,
government, university, and NGO audiences on the bottom-line
benefits of sustainability strategies. He has authored two
books, The Sustainability Advantage and The Next
Sustainability Wave, and created a DVD of his presentation,
The Business Case for Sustainability. His next book,
The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook, will be released in
spring 2009. He worked 34 years with IBM Canada, is on the
faculty of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy, and serves on the
advisory board of the Natural Step Canada. He has a PhD in
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E-mail:
bobwillard@sympatico.ca See
www.sustainabilityadvantage.com for more information about
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Kathi Vian
leads the IFTF annual Ten-Year Forecast program that anticipates
that most important innovations and disruptions in the economy,
society, and environment over the coming decade. Starting with
her research on computer-based communications systems in the
1970s, Kathi has followed the evolution of group communication
and social systems as result of new technologies. Her main focus
today is the evolution of institutions as they leverage
bottom-up economic innovations and social media practices to
respond to environmental crises. She is particularly interest in
the potential of new kinds of commons to bridge between the
public and private sector, between markets and policy, between
digital and physical, and between local and global. She was
recently co-producer of the first massively multiplayer
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Paul Wolff
is an
architect and Professor Emeritus of Architecture from
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, where he taught
Universal
Design and Environmental Psychology. He has published numerous
chapters and articles on creating therapeutic play settings, and
empathetic design. He has designed accessible residences, play
environments and a 24 unit fully accessible public housing
complex for
seniors and people with disabilities (1993). Consultant and
conference speaker on Universal Design and the Americans with
Disabilities Act. Born in Hamburg, Germany, from where he fled
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Warren Wolf is President of the Board of
The Humanist Institute and serves on the Board of The Institute
for Humanist Studies.
Retired from Owens Corning where he was serving as VP of Owens
Corning Science and Technology and Chief Scientist, his career
spanned 33 years as senior scientist and then technical
management positions in research, engineering and environmental
and health science areas with considerable involvement in
manufacturing. Since his retirement he has served as
President of The American Ceramic Society, and serves on
Advisory Boards at Virginia Tech, and The Ohio State University.
He has consulted for The United States Department of Energy on
energy efficiency and nuclear waste issues.. He was a US
delegate to the International Commission on Glass (ICG) and
served eight years. He chaired the ICG Technical Committee on
the Biosolubility on Glass from its founding until completion of
research work showing glass fibers should be not be listed among
carcinogenic materials. Wolf has been honored as a distinguished
alumnus of the College of Engineering at Ohio State and as a
Fellow of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn
State. He earned his Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from The Ohio
State University and MBA from Xavier University. In 2006 Wolf
received the Glass Industry’s Phoenix Award given globally to
one individual each year for their achievements and
contributions to the glass industry.
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Paul Wolff
is a licensed
architect and designer of 24-unit accessible housing complex in
San Luis Obispo for elderly and disabled (1993). Consultant and
conference speaker on universal design, accessible design, and
the Americans with Disabilities Act. Participant, Universal
Design Education Project, strategies for teaching lifespan
issues to future designers (1993-96). Jewish refugee from
Germany in 1939.
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Beth David Synagogue
http://www.cbdslo.org/aboutus/goinggreen/
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Victoria Zelin
is Senior Vice President and Sustainability Practice Leader
at Hudson Gain Corporation, a leadership solutions firm. She
has spent the past 25 years providing executive recruitment,
leadership development, training, organization change and
outplacement to clients both large and small, across
functions and industries. At Hudson Gain she
co-authored, Going Green? Don't Hire a Sustainability
Chief Until You Read This Study! The Role of the Chief
Sustainability Officer in Corporations, Victoria
speaks on leadership of the corporate sustainability
function and contributes her time to helping professionals
in transition to position themselves for the new green
economy. Victoria has been a Vice President at Hudson
Highland, a global staffing firm, and at Lee Hecht Harrison,
a global leader in career transitions; a Director at
CSC/Index, the reengineering consultancy, and in other human
capital firms. In her early career, Victoria worked at Exxon
and in museums and architectural preservation. She has an
MBA from the Yale School of Management with a specialization
in Organizational Behavior and a BA from Duke University in
Cultural Anthropology. Victoria lives in Basking Ridge, NJ,
with her husband, Jonathan Cloud, and her daughter, Ilana, a
student at Rutgers University in Fine Arts.
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Going
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